Secret fan database in Bavaria: 1644 question mark

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The name is by no means program. The database, which is located in Bavaria under the nameless name Easy Violence and Sport (Easy GS) at the Landeskriminamt office, is rather heavy diet for stademarks, data protects, politicians and lawyers. Since January 24, 2020, personal details of football fans are collected and evaluated in parallel with the nationwide File Violence Sports (DGS). This resulted in a written question from the Green Landtag MEP Katharina Schulze and Max Deisenhofer. The corresponding answers of the Ministry of the Interior lies the Munich as well as excerpts of an entry from the file.

The Bavarian police are therefore sitting on a huge amount of data, 1644 people were stored in Easy GS at May 15, 2021, most common fans of 1. FC Nuremberg (556 persons), from 1860 Munich (407) and FC Bayern Munich (248). For comparison: There are around 500 people residing in the DGS in Bavaria. But this is just a criticism of the file that has emerged from the public from the previously used four local databases of the scenecond officials.

The criteria for a recording in Easy GS are low-threshold. The decision to store a person [...] is not based on a single relevant facts, but based on a so-called individual forecast, says in the answer to the request. This open formulation is interpreted by experts so that a recording is also possible without suspicion of a criminal offense or a misdemeanor. So you can land in the data collection, if the police says that a person dangers the risk of attachment of stickers, who believes Marco Noli, criminal defense from Munich and member of the AG fan lawyers. The amount of stored persons also encourages incomprehension in politics. The visit of football games is safe in Bavaria safely, the number of offenses and administrative offenses has been continuous for years. Against this background, it is absolutely incomprehensible that the Bavarian police quietly and secretly created another database for storing football fans - in the Even three times so many people are stored, says Deisenhofer, sports policy spokesman for the Green Landtag Group.

A kind of cartography of organized fans scene

But what is the database used by the police? The Easy GS 'file serves to obtain personal findings on relationships and links between members of violent scenes related to sports events, says the Ministry of State. Thus, targeted police measures for danger defense should be initiated. This means probably, for example, help with the assessment, which games are classified as risk games. In addition, however, it seems that in the file as many members and sympathizers are collected from the point of view of police suspicious fishing groups, especially followers around the UltraGruppen - a kind of cartography of organized fans scene. The suspicion is suggested that it is held which person with whom is wrong in which fan club she is and which confessed you may have with a UltraGroup, says Christian Exner from the AWO fan project in Munich: This is a collection rejuvenation to make a big picture. I can not explain it to me why so many people were stored. It is obviously as many data and cross connections as possible. The result is a general criminalization.

And at least for some people in the file is also logged next to many information about the person, which games you visited as a viewer and where exactly they stopped in the stadium. In a data information of a fan present to the Munich, its visits to home and awayivities are listed, each with the note Visit a sporting event with stay in the circle of a violent grouping or its closer environment. Knowledge of their storage and detailed information about it and their motion profile had no person requested from the authorities. The file grain considerably in the right to informational self-determination and is unconstitutional in this form, says the AG fan lawyers even. How to maintain visits remains open. Police computers are not left-free spaces. There are also strict constitutional principles that are violated, judges lawyer Noli.

It can not be that neither those affected by the existence of such a file know nor that their data was stored.

Green Group Chairman Katharina Schulze

Saved persons will also not be proactively informed about recording, file inspection have also applied for the most allest due to the previously hardly widespread knowledge of the file. It can not be that neither those affected from the existence of such a file know, nor that their data were stored, criticizes the Green Group Chairman Schulze. In the case of a request for information, the Söder-Government is only hesitant and incomplete to publish the documents.

Empty standing places in Munich. Ulmer / Pool

The competent data protection officer Although Thomas Petri has been in critical exchange with the Ministry of State since 2017, as his office confirmed to Munich's request, it does not have to grant approval in accordance with the police task law, but only examines the plausibility of the for the first time of automated procedures with which Personal data are processed necessary building arrangement. A storage Scene-typical data is in consideration of the mainly preventive orientation according to him often as required to values ​​that also for the processing of data from the context of criminal offenses or security disorders . But the legality is ultimately always relevant. The notifications so far are critical to the previously lacking notifications: A general notification obligation would provide for more transparency concerned. From a privacy point of view, a corresponding regulation would therefore be welcome. He also represented this view to the Ministry of the Interior.

Even a set procedure is not enough to delete an entry

While recording in the file is done quickly and unnoticed, deletion from the expiry of the statutory storage period of up to ten years is unevenly heavier. This is only possible, if the judiciary known from one of the police clearly shows that it has been cleared in the procedure on the accused of any suspicion. The sticking point: Even a set procedure is not enough, as suspects from the public prosecutor's office in the rarest cases are released as innocent, in a recipient attention remains a legal remainder. The proof of proof is thus reversed for the stored, not only for the Greens the opposite of innocence presumption.

Police use at a game of 1860 Munich. imago images / mis

What has hitherto left only a few games with spectators since January 2020 are the actual impact of storage in Easy GS for the persons concerned. The formulations in the responses of the Ministry of State leave the official at least many possibilities. An example: Are there any people led in the DGS problems with professional or private travel abroad, even if they have no relation to football? Although no automated data transmission from the Easy GS application to other police databases instead, and the group of people with access is to be a tight-bordered area of ​​members of the Bavarian police like scenic officials, investigators and clerks, but also a individual case transmission to fulfill the tasks of a public body or for police task filling .

Already not only in Bavaria's very tense relationship between authorities and fans is further damaged in any case, Tobias Reuter finds from the fan project Munich: Young people are stigmatized as violent entrepreneurs just because they belong to a fishing group or know people from the scene.

The text appeared in the current Munich thursday output. Read the complete output also conveniently in the emagazine.